unrealistic puzzle!
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i got this one from a book of chess puzzles entitled chess challenges 3! i've been amazed when I see the solution at the back of the book, try this one and also be amaze, if i got to rate this 1-10 being 10 is the highest, I'll rate this 9!!
1. Rg6 Kh4 2. Rh6 Kh3 3. Rxh5#
1. Rg6 h4 2. Rb6 axb6 3. a7 b5 4. a8=N b4 5. Nc7 b3 6. Nd5 b2 7.Nf4#
santiR wrote: great, but 1...h4 is a mistake. okay I did mine without looking at the solution. h4 is actually the best move for black, because if kh4, then you put the white rook on the h-file and whenever the black king moves forward to h3 (the only move) you take Rxh4 checkmate, way soon. Black's best move, is the move the postpones checkmate the longest, which is h4.
I was a bit annoyed that I had to guess at the route the knight would take, since it's the same outcome.
NoMercyInChess wrote: santiR wrote: great, but 1...h4 is a mistake. okay I did mine without looking at the solution. h4 is actually the best move for black, because if kh4, then you put the white rook on the h-file and whenever the black king moves forward to h3 (the only move) you take Rxh4 checkmate, way soon. Black's best move, is the move the postpones checkmate the longest, which is h4.
Putting the rook back on the h-file would be foolish. If 1...Kh4, White plays 2.Rb5.
simply the best reply for black here is h4, hoping for a stalemate afterwards if white got careless!
If i were on the game playing white, honestly, i could never think the move played in the puzzle on which the white pieces won!
I think I'd spot it. There are so few options that I'd have time to thoroughly calculate. The first two moves are obvious. The question is 'would I think to promote to a knight?' Since a queen is obviously a draw, I don't think it would take long to figure out.
Great puzzle! as a puzzle anyway even if an unlikely OTB situation. Note that
1 Rg6 Kh4 fails as now 2Rb6 is out as the black king escapes if white promotes to a knight and he can still stalemate himself if white queens. Plenty to look at.
silentfilmstar13 wrote: I was a bit annoyed that I had to guess at the route the knight would take, since it's the same outcome.
Such is a problem with the PGN software and those that do the tactics trainers complain of it as well. They cannot give credit for alternate solutions. But if you got it other than that, you clearly solved it.